I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else

My approach is simple. It is nothing other than what I am thinking at the time I make each piece of clothing, whether I think it is strong and beautiful. The result is something that other people decide.

In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through. So it's self-given, but that's the only way, I think, to make a strong, good new creation.

The idea was not to make a huge business, because the bigger you get, the more restraints I thought I might get. Number one was to do what I set out to do: make new and interesting things within the size of the business that is possible to do without restraints. The second goal was to do the business in order to achieve the first goal. That's what many people don't understand.

For me, I haven't succeeded in any way whatsoever.

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.